November 2010 - Campus Activities Network Blog

  • Attention Students: Know Your Professors!

    Attention Students: Know Your Professors! Educators, you can use this as a tool to show your students. Spice up your syllabus a bit perhaps. They should read this so that they know it is OK to get to know you. As a student myself, this would have helped me my freshman year in college. It’s your freshman year, at a new school, in a new city. Everything is new. The teachers you have known from the past four years are still back home. It’s a whole new ball game now and you are intimidated. If you are not now, you will be at some point. No matter how independent or optimistic you are about...
    Published 11-15-2010 1:50 PM by katiem
    Filed under:
  • College Traditions: Building Student Pride

    College Traditions have always been a great way of connecting students with their school pride. The key for these traditions is to have something that has been done for many years and have something for every student’s interests. Traditions can range from a daily, weekly or even monthly event to a football ritual, even scavenger hunts get the students pumped. For example, the University of Chicago has many traditions listed on their website that just make you want to go there! Besides the fact of them being an excellent academic institution, they keep their campus activity on the rise with...
  • Get Students Involved with Community Service! Benefits are Endless!

    C ommunity Service plays an important role in helping students learn that what they are doing is making a difference. Sometimes, they don’t realize that they really can help their community and have an impact. Many students want to get involved in the community, but sometimes don’t know where to look. Give students a clear way to find these organizations and groups that are doing great things. So how do we let them know what opportunities are out there? I’ve said it before and I will say it again! Publicity! This is the main tool for anything. This generation is so influenced...
  • Homecoming = FUN for Students and Alum!

    Every year it seems like homecomings for colleges and universities creeps up on us. At the beginning of the year , you’re trying to get all your ducks in a row, get organized and figure out your class and work schedule and on top of that, try to maintain a semi social life (some of us, more than others). For the most part, this is the biggest event of the semester so you start planning quickly. Homecoming falls usually between fall and thanksgiving break, sometimes before fall break in late September, early October. You have alumni, students, football, kings, queens, food, booze, and of course...
© 2010 Campus Activities Network